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Banned Books Week: The Banned Books

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
ISBN: 9781595141712
Publication Date: 2007-10-18

China Dream by Mia Jian
This book is available through SearchOhio.

Beartown by Fredrik Backman
ISBN: 9781501160769
Publication Date: 2017-04-25
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling; Mary GrandPré (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0590353403
Publication Date: 1998-09-01
Beyond Magenta by Susan Kuklin
ISBN: 9780763656119
Publication Date: 2014-02-11
Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets by Dav Pilkey (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780545599320
Publication Date: 2014-01-07
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki; Jillian Tamaki (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781596437746
Publication Date: 2014-05-06
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
ISBN: 9781250012579
Publication Date: 2013-02-26
Skippyjon Jones, Class Action by Judy Schachner
ISBN: 9780525422280
Publication Date: 2011-07-12
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Call Number: PN1997.2 .P47 2013
ISBN: 9786314941024
Publication Date: 2013
Forever by Judy Blume
ISBN: 9780689849732
Publication Date: 2002-12-01
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou; Oprah Winfrey (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780375507892
Publication Date: 2002-03-05

The Catcher in the Rye
This book is available through SearchOhio.

The Giver by Lois Lowry
ISBN: 9780385732550
Publication Date: 2006-01-24
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier; Christopher Collier
ISBN: 0590073397
Publication Date: 1974-01-01
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney
ISBN: 9780440220657
Publication Date: 1991-04-01

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
ISBN: 9780316013680
Publication Date: 2007-09-12
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
ISBN: 0385509456
Publication Date: 2003-06-17
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
ISBN: 9780061743528
Publication Date: 2010-05-11
George by Alex Gino
ISBN: 9780545812542
Publication Date: 2015-08-25
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson; Peter Parnell; Henry Cole (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780689878459
Publication Date: 2005-06-01
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
ISBN: 9780062498533
Publication Date: 2017-02-28

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
This book is available through OhioLINK.

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
ISBN: 9780375714832
Publication Date: 2007-10-30
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
ISBN: 9780375411557
Publication Date: 1993-12-28
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
ISBN: 9780439023481
Publication Date: 2008-10-01
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
ISBN: 0156028352
Publication Date: 2003-05-28

A Bad Boy Can be Good for a Girl by Tanya Lee Stone
This book is available through OhioLINK.

King and King by Linda de Haan (Illustrator); Stern Nijland (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781582460611
Publication Date: 2003-03-01
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780060266684
Publication Date: 1996-01-19
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson; Donna Diamond (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780690013597
Publication Date: 2017-05-02
We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
ISBN: 0440215560
Publication Date: 1993-08-01

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